The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c29.s2.134

v2.c29.s2.134

Some time before 1042, the earliest recorded date of his successor, Gāṅgeya 'found salvation (*mukti*) with his 100 wives (*gṛhiṇīs*)' at Prayāga (Allahabad).¹ As his *Saṁvatsara-śrāddha* was performed in that year, he seems to have died in 1041 A.D.² He was succeeded by his son Karṇa begotten on queen Dematī,³ also called *Lakṣmī-Karṇa*.⁴ The names of his two immediate successors, Yaśaḥ-Karṇa and Gayā-Karṇa, perhaps show that Lakṣmī-Karṇa was his real name. In the records of his own family however he is always known by the shortened form Karṇa. Such abbreviations of names are by no means an uncommon feature of the records of this period.